An md-80 flight crew responded appropriately to a TCAS RA received in the terminal area.

Attributes
ACN	979150
Time
Date	201111
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	MD-83
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Climb
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Conflict NMAC
Miss Distance	Horizontal 0 Vertical 400

Narrative:

Just after takeoff; we had a TCAS RA that instructed us to monitor vertical speed. We were climbing; and the red area on the vsi told us to continue the climb. The TCAS screen was very cluttered; but it appeared that the red aircraft symbol showed the other aircraft 400 ft below us when the RA started. We continued to climb; and the RA went away. We advised tower; and flew to our destination with no further incidents.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An MD-80 flight crew responded appropriately to a TCAS RA received in the terminal area.

Narrative: Just after takeoff; we had a TCAS RA that instructed us to monitor vertical speed. We were climbing; and the red area on the VSI told us to continue the climb. The TCAS screen was very cluttered; but it appeared that the red aircraft symbol showed the other aircraft 400 FT below us when the RA started. We continued to climb; and the RA went away. We advised Tower; and flew to our destination with no further incidents.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.