Many long hours I have spent in sims, all over the world and on many different types, from 747 to PA 34. Standards have always been consistently high throughout and the job has always been successfully done to satisfaction. However, as with all training, two simulator instructors remain firmly imbedded in my log book as being outstanding.
These were. I hope still are, the instructors with whom one would gladly go into the red eye slot over and over again and with whom the training detail passed in a twinkle of time.
As a point of interest though, if you cannot use your own IRE/TRE in the simulator then are all FSI Jhb/Int instructors licensed by lots of different CAAs to sign out customers IRs and 1179s or equivalents on ICAO, JAA and FAA licences and how do they manage to keep current on such qualifications? Perhaps it is only that FSI/JHB will not let anyone who does not work for them actually operate the simulator? That is the same rule as ANZ used to have in their simulators.