Narrative:

The first officer (first officer) had informed me he was fresh off IOE and hadn't flown in 3 weeks. I am used to inexperienced first officer's and am pretty vigilant at watching over them; especially during critical phases of flight. For this reason; I normally ask them to fly the first leg so that I can devote my attention to both monitoring duties and keep an eye on them flying the plane. Our normal checks and preflight duties were all completed properly and in accordance with company policy and procedures. We took [the] runway and were cleared for takeoff. [The first officer] set the thrust levers for takeoff; however we both missed that the power setting was only in the climb detent; not toga. We didn't notice any type of change in the acceleration or runway usage prior to the 80 knot callout; V1 or vr. In fact; it wasn't till the after takeoff checklist that I had put my hand on the thrust levers to bring them to the climb detent that I noticed that they were already there. At that point I queried [the first officer] if he had brought them back. He responded no; and I thought about it as to whether or not I had without thinking about it. I came to the conclusion that we had in fact taken off in the climb detent and not the toga. We came to the determination that the difference in toga and climb must have been so little that it didn't make a difference in this instance; however both learned a valuable lesson on diligence and even went as far as to both verbally state that we were in the toga detent on every takeoff from there on out.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: CRJ-700 flight crew reported taking off with the thrust levers in the climb detent instead of TOGA.

Narrative: The First Officer (FO) had informed me he was fresh off IOE and hadn't flown in 3 weeks. I am used to inexperienced FO's and am pretty vigilant at watching over them; especially during critical phases of flight. For this reason; I normally ask them to fly the first leg so that I can devote my attention to both monitoring duties and keep an eye on them flying the plane. Our normal checks and preflight duties were all completed properly and in accordance with company policy and procedures. We took [the] runway and were cleared for takeoff. [The FO] set the thrust levers for takeoff; however we both missed that the power setting was only in the climb detent; not TOGA. We didn't notice any type of change in the acceleration or runway usage prior to the 80 knot callout; V1 or VR. In fact; It wasn't till the after takeoff checklist that I had put my hand on the thrust levers to bring them to the climb detent that I noticed that they were already there. At that point I queried [the FO] if he had brought them back. He responded no; and I thought about it as to whether or not I had without thinking about it. I came to the conclusion that we had in fact taken off in the climb detent and not the TOGA. We came to the determination that the difference in TOGA and Climb must have been so little that it didn't make a difference in this instance; however both learned a valuable lesson on diligence and even went as far as to both verbally state that we were in the TOGA detent on every takeoff from there on out.

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.