Narrative:

We were climbing out on the CLT2 and started picking up wake turbulence when we turned to a 330 heading. I was climbing fairly steep off autopilot to try and out climb the wake from airplane in front of us. We were fairly light for a 900 and were able to do 2500 FPM easily and the wake subsided. At approximately 6000 feet ATC issued a turn to 270 heading and advised an airbus at our 12-1 o'clock and level at 9000 feet. We had the traffic in sight and I reduced thrust to slow the climb rate but it was not enough to prevent the preventative RA to 'level off'. We leveled at approximately 7700 notified ATC and climbed to 8000 when the RA ceased. TCAS preventative RA to 'level off'. Wake turbulence and wanting to maintain a safe and comfortable ride for passengers and flight attendants. We were somewhat task saturated still on the departure and trying to set up for an arrival into [destination] and determine runway landing direction to stay ahead. We talked about runway 22 prior to leaving clt based on the taf and knew that everything would happen pretty fast when turned westbound. I could have done a better job monitoring the TCAS prior to the RA but had the traffic visually. The 1000 feet to level off; turn to 270; and wake were all contributing factors.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: CRJ-900 flight crew reported receiving an RA during climb triggered by the closure rate to another aircraft above. Workload and a wake turbulence encounter were cited as contributing.

Narrative: We were climbing out on the CLT2 and started picking up wake turbulence when we turned to a 330 heading. I was climbing fairly steep off autopilot to try and out climb the wake from airplane in front of us. We were fairly light for a 900 and were able to do 2500 FPM easily and the wake subsided. At approximately 6000 feet ATC issued a turn to 270 heading and advised an Airbus at our 12-1 o'clock and level at 9000 feet. We had the traffic in sight and I reduced thrust to slow the climb rate but it was not enough to prevent the preventative RA to 'level off'. We leveled at approximately 7700 notified ATC and climbed to 8000 when the RA ceased. TCAS Preventative RA to 'level off'. Wake turbulence and wanting to maintain a safe and comfortable ride for passengers and flight attendants. We were somewhat task saturated still on the departure and trying to set up for an arrival into [destination] and determine runway landing direction to stay ahead. We talked about Runway 22 prior to leaving CLT based on the TAF and knew that everything would happen pretty fast when turned westbound. I could have done a better job monitoring the TCAS prior to the RA but had the traffic visually. The 1000 feet to level off; turn to 270; and wake were all contributing factors.

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.