To put it in perspective though....
There are a bunch of people on the Flyer website who started their IR's in Jan I believe. Some are just finishing now.
By contrast, I went to the USA and did my FAA IR when I had about 120 hrs TT in 2001. It took 5 weeks from start to finish, and I had never flown on instruments and was short of cross country time. Before I went I read the Jeppesen Instrument Commercial manual and some Gleim books, I then sat the exam a week or so after I arrived and aced it.
The flying standard is the same and some would argue the test is harder than JAR - no set format, 1.5 hr oral exam, so you can't say it was "easier".....Just far more achievable.
Cost was about £10,000 cheaper
