Narrative:

Had just taken off on runway 13 lga on the lga 2 whitestone climb. The instructions read: turn right heading 180 degrees till 2.5 DME then turn left to 040 degrees. The first officer was flying on his second flight out of IOE. As we were climbing out; turning to 180 degrees; we were instructed to switch to departure frequency. My earpiece came loose so I had to reach down to retrieve it. When I looked back up we were in a descending turn and accelerating; I informed him to pull back on the yoke as I retracted the flaps to keep from overspeeding them. Before we could resume a normal departure we had accelerated beyond 210 KTS and still were not on the 040 degree heading. We established the aircraft on the profile departure and continued the flight uneventfully.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A B757-200 Captain reported deviating from the LGA Whitestone Climb when his inexperienced First Officer got behind the aircraft.

Narrative: Had just taken off on Runway 13 LGA on the LGA 2 Whitestone Climb. The instructions read: turn right heading 180 degrees till 2.5 DME then turn left to 040 degrees. The First Officer was flying on his second flight out of IOE. As we were climbing out; turning to 180 degrees; we were instructed to switch to Departure frequency. My earpiece came loose so I had to reach down to retrieve it. When I looked back up we were in a descending turn and accelerating; I informed him to pull back on the yoke as I retracted the flaps to keep from overspeeding them. Before we could resume a normal departure we had accelerated beyond 210 KTS and still were not on the 040 degree heading. We established the aircraft on the profile departure and continued the flight uneventfully.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of May 2009 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.