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Old 15th February 2003 | 11:28
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distaff_beancounter
 
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Could you clarify you question a bit please?

Are you asking if you can get your initial PPL licince issued with only a multi-engine piston (MEP) class rating?

If so, I am not sure that you can, althiugh you used to be able to, prior to JAA.

Anyhow, under JAA an MEP class rating, does not entitle you to fly a single-engine piston (SEP).

So, if by any chance you did start your PPL training on an MEP, then you would presumably not be licenced to fly anything solo, as you would be in a Catch 22 situation:-
Less than 70hr P1, so cannot get the MEP rating.
But no SEP rating, so cannot clock up the necessary 70hr P1.

In practice, most people get their initial PPL, with an SEP rating. They then get some experience & enjoy themselves, while clocking up some hours. Many of them will do an IMC rating & a night qualification. Only then do they think about the MEP, by which time they should have got the necessary 70hr P1, in the log book.

I hope that sort of answers you question, but if you give us more details, I am sure that someone, more knowlegaeble than me, will reply.
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