Originally Posted by
ChickenHouse
I would always advice to do night before IR
I've done IR(R) but not the night rating ... however I have done some night flying, because some of my IR(R) lessons were at night (you're not needing to see out during ain IR(R) lesson anyway so it doesn't matter if it's dark outside).
Within seconds after take-off at night you're on instruments (well, depending on weather and location, but sometimes you will be). As you're going to need some competence with flying on instruments in order to fly at night, why wouldn't you do the IR(R) first?