Reg
Is your sim slot with Mike Boulton? I only ask because I had a couple of hours on the 727 with him just recently. There were two of us, but to our surprised Mike sat in the left hand seat leaving the other one of us in the jump seat, well flight engineers seat to be exact. I'm not complaining, it's possibly a better vantage point but what I am saying is that you may not need a partner, just knock your booking down to 2 hours.
SW