In 4 years flying up north I must have done maybe 6-7 practise pans after being asked to by scottish area on 121.5.
In that time I have heard numerious beacons going off.
Getting on for hundreds of trans atlantic chit chat.
4 real emergencys
and more than 10 less than 20 (or thirty if you included the ones i was doing) practise pans.
Working further south now I really can't understand where all these practise pans which are meant to be occuring all the time are. I go for days with out hearing a single one. The same cannot be said for ops calls, chit chat, music, farting noises and some prat who was making a noise like a donkey having a particularly difficult poo (although this could have been a french pilot with a nasal problem)