Also, don't forget you will need 100hrs P1 for the CPL issue, so if you avoid hour building now depending on the P1 time you currently have you might have to do some at the end of your training to get the P1 time to have the CPL issued (none of the IR course is logged as P1, apart from the skills test at the end which is logged as P1S if successful - same goes for the CPL skills test).
I did the IR before CPL, found myself in the very situation described above and had to do a bit of hour building at the very end to bump up my P1 hours for license issue.
However, apart from that doing the IR first worked out quite well for me, especially welcome was the reduction in required training hours for the CPL (from 25 to 15 hours) although don't forget your IR training requirement is 5 hours longer than it would be for a CPL holder!
Very best of luck with your training whatever you decide to do.
Eurotraveller
Last edited by Eurotraveller; 29th December 2008 at 10:20.