DFC.....half the story as usual
As DFC says some maintenance tasks can be carried out by the owners & pilots however they will require to be trained & checked to do these tasks by the maintenance company that they are contracted to.
In effect they will be issued with a task limmited company approval by the maintenance company.
This brings us back to the cost to the maintenance company to get the Part M approvals. The next cost is that to check the owner/pilot can perform the task safely.
So for DFC to get the approval to do what he can now do under LAMS he will have to get checked out by the maintenance company that he will have to be contracted to and have to pay the cost of administering the check out and approval.
Now do we think that if DFC gets the CAA to do the ARC each year they are going to give him a limmited task approval for free ?