I was told by a reliable source that CASA suspended ATPL Flight Planning because someone was caught in the exam with cheat notes containing exact CASA Flight Planning questions and answers.
Because of this CASA had to take the exam off the system for a week and put new questions and answers in because if one person had exact questions and answers for the exam then many more could.
As a result of this a reputable ATPL theory school which usually had 50% of its classes in Flight Planning pass had only 3 out of the 36 students of the last course pass this exam with the new questions and answers. So the pass rate of 50% of 36 students has gone down to only 8% of 36 students. This means that the new exam has incorrect answers of the questions given or the new exam is far too hard.
If this is going to continue to be the pass rate for the new ATPL Flight Planning exam than Australian Aviation won't have any more ATPL pilots which might be a good thing for CASA in the short run because their going to get a lot more money for people re-siting this exam but bad in the long run for the obvious reasons.
If anyone has had any experience with this new exam please feel free to post on this forum or pm me.