An MD80 crew reported that during climb out the first officer allowed the aircraft to accelerate to ...

Attributes
ACN	914396
Time
Date	201010
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.ARTCC
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	MD-83
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Climb
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	FCU (Flight Control Unit)
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying First Officer
Person 2
Function	Pilot Not Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Speed All Types

Narrative:

Climbing through about FL260 speed slow light flickered on FMA; I clicked off autopilot and leveled aircraft noticed airspeed approaching 220 with engines normal; vertical velocity indicated 2700 when I clicked off autopilot. Had put autopilot on above 10;000 with speed select set to 300kts. At first could not understand what happened; but I believe at around 17000' when ATC cleared us to higher altitude I had used the vertical speed to continue climb and not confirmed that I had gone back to speed select. This let the aircraft climb at vertical speed instead of at a set speed. I did not confirm I had set speed select for the autopilot ;and to compound the error did not monitor the instruments and mode selected for the a/c.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An MD80 crew reported that during climb out the First Officer allowed the aircraft to accelerate to 300 kts with a 250 kt restriction. The Speed Select mode was changed to Vertical Speed to slow the aircraft and at FL260 a low speed alert sounded.

Narrative: Climbing through about FL260 speed slow light flickered on FMA; I clicked off autopilot and leveled aircraft noticed airspeed approaching 220 with engines normal; vertical velocity indicated 2700 when I clicked off autopilot. Had put autopilot on above 10;000 with speed select set to 300kts. At first could not understand what happened; but I believe at around 17000' when ATC cleared us to higher altitude I had used the vertical speed to continue climb and not confirmed that I had gone back to speed select. This let the aircraft climb at vertical speed instead of at a set speed. I did not confirm I had set speed select for the autopilot ;and to compound the error did not monitor the instruments and mode selected for the a/c.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.

An MD80 crew reported that during climb out the first officer allowed the aircraft to accelerate to 300 kts with a 250 kt restriction. The speed select mode was changed to vertical speed to slow the aircraft and at FL260 a low speed alert sounded.