Well, found a funky trick that I thought I should share.
You know those mechs with really low-slung arms? You -can- sort of help this by toggling Free Look.
Force the torso to look up as high as possible, toggle Free Look, and then look down. It's confusing at first, but it actually does raise the arms to about slightly lower than the original cockpit level if you're in a KFX or a Nova. Not sure about Centurions and the rest, but it's probably worth trying.
For Locusts, I think LCT arms are already high enough as it is, but there's probably other uses for it that I haven't found yet. Mechs with no lower arm actuators aren't as useful for this as those with hand + arm ones.
Edited by Fox With A Shotgun, 22 January 2016 - 02:08 AM.