Adler, I will readily agree that the training and standards that the 727 pilots were held to was vastly superior to what was provided / expected out of us in the "little airplane".

However, this is not a pertinent conversation. I never brought up training, proficiency, the capability of a crewmember, or the "size of their cockpit". The points that I made, which would be universal regardless of whether one were to operate a 172 or a 777, were as follows:

While I was at IFL,

1. The company expected and required crewmembers to operate aircraft without the rest that is required by Federal law.

2. The company, at least on one occasion of which I have first hand experience, coerced a crewmember into flying a trip AFTER the crewmember had already stated, on a recorded line, that they were unfit for duty.

3. The company actively encouraged / threatened crewmembers to operate aircraft that were made un-airworthy by inoperative equipment or other mechanical defects until the assignment had been completed and the airplane could be repositioned to PTK. One only has to look through any aircraft log and realize that 95% of the discrepancies noted were documented on the leg that ended in PTK, the company's repair station.
How fortunate.