You see I can't understand that gear down over the top of the beacon going outbound. Its not standard airline practise to fly the outbound that dirty. We have maybe the first stage of flap down or clean and the gear comes down with 1 mile to TOD after the base turn. If you have been sold a stinker by ATC and you at FL100 over the beacon and its not icing, yes get dirty to get the height off. But normally you wouldn't and I wouldn't expect an FO to do it either and wouldn't comment if they wanted a couple of turns around the hold to get the height off. But if they asked if they could they would be allowed to if they had set up the speed to make it possible.
Is there any Jet pilots about to confirm what you do in swept wing aircraft?