Did the sim catch fire, or did the instructor give you simulated fires?
Having been faulty for a week (faulty brake, therefore unable easily to taxi: Sorties started at 1000ft) One of the 'cards' failed (Don't ask me I'm a technophobe).
No sooner had that been fixed than the hard drive in the computer situated under the 'jump seat' at the back of the simulator caught fire.
(No instructor 'fires' as I was doing SEP only)
So: SIM down for another week....That lead to a massive backlog of sim 'flights' and the CPL/IRs outnumbered the PPL/IRs big time. That meant 7.30 am starts on three occasions so I was clear before the Commercials got into the SIM at 9 am.
A bit taxing for a pensoiner and I missed my 'inclusive' hotel breakfast...........
So I binned that outfit as I clearly couldn't hack the sim and went elsewhere for the flying.
In retrospect I should have kept an up-to-date SIM log on a daily basis and asked for a discussion with the HOT when I was clearly struggling.....
(Also the outfit's (only) SEP was also tech for two weeks.)
With the benefit of hindsight all my probs were of my own making and I live with the consequences.
Cusco.