Just study as hard as you can for the Flight Planning. Know where to find stuff in your B727 manual.
I sat planning years ago and found it very difficult - failed. I was offered a job on the venerable B727 a few years ago and flew the old girl for two and a half years and loved every moment of it.
Finished my ATP's last year with AFT and found flight planning just as hard as when I first sat it many years ago. Having flown the 72 helped a little as a lot of figures were and are similar. Real aircraft we worked in Pounds and CASA work in Kilos. The CASA 727 extract is just part of the actual manual anyway.
Just forget about the aircraft - if it was based on an A320, A330, B737, B767 the technique for solving the problems remain the same, only the values change.
The method for calculating a PNR, for example, is the same no matter what aircraft you fly.
Also Flight Planning and Performance and Loading are seperate exams.
Good luck.
Last edited by ozblackbox; 23rd Apr 2010 at 06:42.