Shameless lurker of this forum currently flying the ERJ175, building time, and pining for the Delta invite. Even at 6’2” on a much smaller plane, the JSer’s knees are still just behind my shoulder. My personal experience from having sat JS on the 73, the JSer actually has two additional crew duties while sitting up front. Tear the sheets off of the printer and throw away all of the trash as it gets handed back. In this business currently, half of the rides to work are on the JS because everything is oversold.
Posted this for our military people, as Uncle Sugar has a lot smaller cockpits than anything flying in the airlines. The original post about the 73’s cockpit being very tight could be incorrectly likened to smashing and folding one’s self to fit into a OH-58 or a single seat fighter.