I self studied 5 out of the 7 subjects.
I did it in the following order:
Met,human factors, airlaw, nav, loading, flight planning, systems.
Tips:
*Met:Sraight forward.
*Human factors: don't be fooled that it's easy, it is, but it's also easy
to muck up.
*Airlaw: not hard, use the trevor Thom exam book, as a final assessment,
if you pass these trial exams, then you won't have any problems.
*Nav:Not difficult, careful on PNR questions at the end, they're worth
a few marks.
*loading: Strongly recommend to attend a full classroom course, then
practise using dividers and eyeballing the position of each point on a
loadsheet.
*Flightplanning:Must, repeat you must attend a classroom course.
*Systems: Can self study and pass, very long and draining, possibly
the most demanding of all subjects.
Do the easier ones first to get runs on the board and concentrate on
the remaining ones last.
I've seen some really switced on kids out there who can virtually blitz these exams,
so it depends how gifted you are?
Otherwise, it's hard labour, slog it out and re-group/try again when you
muck up an exam.
At the end of the day, it's important to successfully complete a
good course somewhere and pass the trial exams, but in the exam
room, the difference between passing and failing an exam, is by being
able to get past the questions that require additional thought and
being able to think outside the box.
www.atpl.com.au
The man's quite good!
Tafe is also a good place but time consuming.
Anyway, goodluck.