Ya know, if it wasn't for some of the stuff I've gotten away with in the year or so I've been flying again, I would say that you make your own luck, and to some extent you do. Good preflights, good assembly practices, good habbits, all of these contribute to making your luck better. But when you JUST happen to catch a yellow flash from your voltwatch as your plane flashes by on what you were going to make a touch and go, or your spinner explodes on takeoff and dosen't damage anything else, or your elevator servo wire gets rubbed through by a mounting screw and you still manage to land your plane with almost full up elevator (TWICE!), I have to say that being lucky is, well, rather nice. As my Dad said, "I'd rather be lucky than good!" (I'd like to be both)

Andy