You certainly used to be able to do a PPL on MEP's pre JAR. I remember someone doing that when I did my 'B' rating many moons ago.
Got mine at 66 hrs TT.
IF it is possible AND the flying that you are going to do is solely ME I see no particular issue with the proposed route other than that it would probably mean learning it the hard way.
If the route SE -> ME is the one followed by all training schools it must make sense.
After all if you have the sort of readies/time that would allow you to contemplate to go the Multi route from thew word go, a few extra hours spent in getting the SE PPL first should not be a limiting factor.
Have fun
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Last edited by Flyin'Dutch'; 15th February 2003 at 17:40.