Doing an IR part time?

[smithgd]

There are plentry of IR courses available that are done on a full time basis, what about doing it part time, say while still working full time? Is there anywhere in the UK to do that?

What would be ideal is to replace the "6 week full time course" with flying/sim'ing at weekends then do a 2 or 3 week intensive full time runup to the IRT. (The 2/3 weeks can be covered by holidays but the 5/6 weeks can't!)

Anyone had experience of doing this?

Thanks
smithgd

PS. Any reductions on the hours if you have an IMC?