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Air carrier captain had an airspeed deviation and cited being rusty due lack of flying as contributing.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1743824 |
| Time | |
| Date | 202005 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0601-1200 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.TRACON |
| State Reference | US |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Commercial Fixed Wing |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Climb |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain Pilot Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Procedural FAR Deviation - Speed All Types |
Narrative:
On departure out of ZZZ was given a heading after taking off and to level at 6;000 feet. I turned to the heading and let the nose [go] below the flight director to try and give an easier level off. At first I reduced the throttles manually; but as we were also looking for traffic ahead I let go of the throttles while looking outside and ended up speeding up to about 265 knots before realizing it. I immediately pulled the throttles back and added back pressure.I believe I underestimated how rusty I might be from barely flying this month. Going forward I'm going to rely more on following the flight director much closer; especially because of how little I'm flying.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Air carrier Captain had an airspeed deviation and cited being rusty due lack of flying as contributing.
Narrative: On departure out of ZZZ was given a heading after taking off and to level at 6;000 feet. I turned to the heading and let the nose [go] below the flight director to try and give an easier level off. At first I reduced the throttles manually; but as we were also looking for traffic ahead I let go of the throttles while looking outside and ended up speeding up to about 265 knots before realizing it. I immediately pulled the throttles back and added back pressure.I believe I underestimated how rusty I might be from barely flying this month. Going forward I'm going to rely more on following the flight director much closer; especially because of how little I'm flying.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.