Renting in California (2)
Many thanks for all your comments.
I had been in contact with all 3 FBOs before I posted the message and I am leaning toward AAA but I just wanted to get some other opinions. The restrictions from Air Desert were the tightest but I've got round all of that that because my friend who will be with me is a 13000+ hour Captain on 747-400s with BA! I will have to do a complex checkout/instruction with any of them but AAA still looks the best value if I go for the Arrow.
The idea of Rainbow Air's 172 is attractive because its so new but as I am also using this to build hours toward a CPL the Arrow seemed a good idea. After all getting 45+ hours at $83 in the US is less than 50% of what it would be here!
Keep the replies coming!