Ce-560 captain reported receiving an RA climbing out of dab.

Attributes
ACN	1537970
Time
Date	201804
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	DAB.Airport
State Reference	FL
Environment
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Citation Excel (C560XL)
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Climb
Route In Use	Vectors
Flight Plan	IFR
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	Any Unknown or Unlisted Aircraft Manufacturer
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 75 Flight Crew Total 9250 Flight Crew Type 1250
Events
Anomaly	Conflict Airborne Conflict Deviation - Altitude Excursion From Assigned Altitude
Miss Distance	Horizontal 2500 Vertical 200

Narrative:

Climbing out of dab off runway 25R; dab departure assigned a heading of 090 and to climb to 8;000 feet. We reached 8;000 feet; leveled; and TCAS showed a traffic conflict at our 2 o'clock position; 500 feet above us; about 5 miles (assuming VFR but dab departure did not mention) and approaching. There was additional traffic at our 3 o'clock and 1;000 feet above and also about 5 miles approaching. I believe dab was in contact with this 2nd aircraft.as the 2 o'clock traffic approached; TCAS commanded an RA climb to climb above a rate of 2;500 FPM; which I did and my copilot reported to ATC. We leveled at 8;800 feet as the RA advised; as the TCAS then picked up the IFR traffic 1;000 feet above that was now a conflict.it appears the problem was the VFR traffic at 500 feet between 2 IFR aircraft and TCAS initially wanted us to avoid the VFR traffic.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: CE-560 Captain reported receiving an RA climbing out of DAB.

Narrative: Climbing out of DAB off Runway 25R; DAB Departure assigned a heading of 090 and to climb to 8;000 feet. We reached 8;000 feet; leveled; and TCAS showed a traffic conflict at our 2 o'clock position; 500 feet above us; about 5 miles (assuming VFR but DAB Departure did not mention) and approaching. There was additional traffic at our 3 o'clock and 1;000 feet above and also about 5 miles approaching. I believe DAB was in contact with this 2nd aircraft.As the 2 o'clock traffic approached; TCAS commanded an RA climb to climb above a rate of 2;500 FPM; which I did and my copilot reported to ATC. We leveled at 8;800 feet as the RA advised; as the TCAS then picked up the IFR traffic 1;000 feet above that was now a conflict.It appears the problem was the VFR traffic at 500 feet between 2 IFR aircraft and TCAS initially wanted us to avoid the VFR traffic.

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