I park my 727 at whichever gate I feel like. There doesn't need to be a visible pushback tug there, an invisible one will do it.

Well I did a test with the 727-100 and the pushback works, but not as well as in other aircraft. It is very slow to pushback to a 90^o angle. This is probably best said as The angle of the pushback turn is very shallow when compared to other aircraft like the CS757, which has a much tighter turning angle.

The difference is that the 757 does it in about 1/3 of the distance as the 727 does. :(

I also want to explain how I tried to see if I could make it better. I went to the [contact_points] section of the CS727-100 aircraft.cfg and changed entry number 8 (the 8^th entry after the "=" sign) in the hope that it might help.
From the FSX SDK help file: 8 (180) Steering Angle The maximum angle (positive and negative) that a wheel can pivot (degrees).

[contact_points]
//point.0=1,   42.20,  0.00, -11.45, 1600, 0, 1.323, 45.00, 0.6, 1.30, 0.6, 4.0, 4.0, 0, 230.0, 270.0
point.0=1,   42.20,  0.00, -11.45, 1600, 0, 1.323, 70.00, 0.6, 1.30, 0.6, 4.0, 4.0, 0, 230.0, 270.0

In the highlighted area above 45^o is the original and 70^o is my change. It made no difference whatsoever. So unless Lou can inform us that this is true of the performance of the 727. I'll call it bug.

Mark