Flight crew reported that the captain's windshield wiper was inoperative on climb out; causing an ai...

Attributes
ACN	1741306
Time
Date	202004
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	IMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	EMB ERJ 145 ER/LR
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Climb
Route In Use	Vectors
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Windshield Wiper System
Person 1
Function	Pilot Not Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Person 2
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence

Narrative:

While we were in climb; the captain noticed that the windshield wipers were on the middle position. He told me to remember the limitation of the speed. I verified that they were off; and told him they were turned off. By the time we were in the roll out; way below our limitation; we told ATC we wanted to stay at 10;000 ft and try to fix a problem we were having with the wipers. We looked at the QRH for any procedure related but we couldn't find any. We decided that the best course of action was to go back to ZZZ and have maintenance look at it.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Flight Crew reported that the Captain's windshield wiper was inoperative on climb out; causing an air turnback.

Narrative: While we were in climb; the Captain noticed that the windshield wipers were on the middle position. He told me to remember the limitation of the speed. I verified that they were off; and told him they were turned off. By the time we were in the roll out; way below our limitation; we told ATC we wanted to stay at 10;000 ft and try to fix a problem we were having with the wipers. We looked at the QRH for any procedure related but we couldn't find any. We decided that the best course of action was to go back to ZZZ and have Maintenance look at it.

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.

Flight crew reported that the captain's windshield wiper was inoperative on climb out; causing an air turnback.