First Officer Program or Continue Instructing
Hey everyone. I'm a CFI and just started working on my CFII (has been a few years since I've done any instrument flying) and I'm at a place where I could use some input from fellow pilots. I'm at 430 hours with roughly 130 dual given. I'm in Ohio and I'm married with 3 kids. I have 6 primary students right now, but they are all about the same place in their training. I'm expecting them to have their PPL checkrides in early October, but I don't have any new students coming up behind them and winter is approaching. Moving away to warmer climate to instruct is not really in the cards, but if it came to that I would try to make it work. My end goal is a cargo carrier.
So....
Scenario 1: Look into a place like Ameriflight and a First Officer Program and work my way up through there
or
Scenario 2: Stick it out with instructing and hope things pan out and I can pick up some students somewhere to make it through the winter.
Any advice you have I'm open to. Thanks for the help.