Originally Posted by
MaydayMark
At a prior 727 job they proposed the idea of a 2-man version of the 727 cockpit. The plan was to move the pitot heat switches to the engineer panel, extend the gear handle so that the engineer could reach it and get rid of the f/o ...

They could alway make the gear handle about 3 feet longer and remove the FO seat so the S/O can reach the handle.