Mayday
Flying northbound over northern Germany last night I heard a Mayday call on 121.5, apparently the guy had an engine fire. This was possibly a practise because the guy was cleared immediately by ATC onto runway 06 ( I believe ). But the best bit was that someone then proceeded to give a full standard Nigel departure brief to pax on 121.5. If the mayday was for real that would have slowed the system down a bit.