The Visitor writes:

The appendix I linked to is exactly that list.

It's exactly the list for flight schools with an approved
maintenance manual. Read the second paragraph. [...] The
applicability of that list is explained at the top. You may not
infer other uses for the list. [...] It exists to help flying
schools get by without needing an AME to do everything, which would
bust any small operation.

I'm afraid you're interpreting it completely the wrong way around.

That paragraph means that the list does not apply to e.g. flight
schools, *unless* their OM essentially transcribes it. And flight
school OMs will probably say that the elementary work needs to be
specially supervised or performed by the maintenance department. This
exactly explains your other anecdote, where a flight instructor got in
trouble for fixing the landing light of a school airplane.

Another way to see this is section 571.02 and .03 of the CARs. It
applies to private airplanes, describes the concept of elementary
work, and (gasp!) it refers to the same subject appendix (standard 625
appendix a) to list them. 571.05 refers to commercial type
operations.

Waste your time on trivia if that is your specialty. What's the big
deal to you anyway. But do it on your own, I'm busy.

Next time, please also be busy enough not to post misinformation, then
spray recalcitrant insults at those who correct it.


- FChE