Maybe you'll have the times for a major, which might be better, but if not: reserve at any regional more or less sucks, no other easy way to put it really to be honest. You'll get 11, maybe 12 days off a month, sometimes no more than 1 in a row however, which would impair your ability to go home. You might be able to work it to group your days off to get several in a row which might help you out a bit, but it would mean only getting home probably once a month with that commute. You'll definately need a crashpad, I lived a 4 hour drive away from my base and there were times I was stuck in my pad for the better part of 2 weeks without flying and not being able to get home. Not trying to be a downer haha, reserve really is not a lot of fun though. Days get switched, you can't make any big plans more than a month in advance, I can't imagine what it would be like commuting from Germany, but by all means give it a shot, I'm sure you're not the first person to have a transatlantic commute. As far as the actual commute, I'm not familiar with international jumpseats, maybe someone else can chime in but I don't think it's as easy as jumpseating domestically. Plus I think you'd have to pay taxes and fees. So like Avroman said, you'll probably be wanting to move in base after dealing with all that for a little while. In the meantime sit back and enjoy the antics with the rest of us!