Today I was flying my PPL profile, and on the climbout from Cranfield the tower asked us if we could call D&D, they wanted someone to help with training.
We gave them a call on 121.5 and they asked us to call back in 2 minutes for a training fix, and advised us that it would be a trainee D&D controller(?) working the call.
We call them and within 2 seconds they identified exactly where we were "just east of Northampton".. We thanked him and changed back.
None of my instructors have shown me a training fix before and I had no idea either how fast or accurate it was. Absolutely invaluable lesson was learned.
I don't understand why people here seem so against the idea of using training on this frequency when clearly they are so desperate for people to call and help train them that they are phoning up airfields and asking them for help from departing aircraft.
999 operators don't need practice calls because they get so many real ones to learn from, all the time!