B737 flight crew reported responding to a RA on initial climb out.

Attributes
ACN	1534283
Time
Date	201804
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	MCO.Airport
State Reference	FL
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B737 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Climb
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Type 3821
Person 2
Function	Pilot Not Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 220 Flight Crew Total 16000 Flight Crew Type 2444
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Conflict Airborne Conflict Deviation - Altitude Excursion From Assigned Altitude Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Track / Heading All Types

Narrative:

Tower assigned heading 220 on departure 17R mco. Climb to 5000 ft. At approx 500 ft tower calls traffic 1 o clock and 2-3 miles. Says traffic has us in sight. We acquired traffic visually. Traffic was at our altitude within 2-3 miles. At that time we begin increasing climb to avoid traffic simultaneously TCAS RA came. We turned further right to avoid traffic and complied with RA by climbing faster. Traffic was in sight the whole time. According to TCAS we probably missed the traffic by about 300-500 ft. Told tower we were following RA. Then returned to heading and altitude assigned when clear of conflict.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: B737 flight crew reported responding to a RA on initial climb out.

Narrative: Tower assigned heading 220 on departure 17R MCO. Climb to 5000 ft. At approx 500 ft tower calls traffic 1 o clock and 2-3 miles. Says traffic has us in sight. We acquired traffic visually. Traffic was at our altitude within 2-3 miles. At that time we begin increasing climb to avoid traffic simultaneously TCAS RA came. We turned further right to avoid traffic and complied with RA by climbing faster. Traffic was in sight the whole time. According to TCAS we probably missed the traffic by about 300-500 ft. Told tower we were following RA. Then returned to heading and altitude assigned when clear of conflict.

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.