Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Multiengine
Distraction; Training / Qualification
Deviation - Speed All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Flight Crew Became Reoriented; Flight Crew Regained Aircraft Control
Environment - Non Weather Related; Human Factors
On departure out of ZZZ was given a heading after taking off and to level at 6;000 feet. I turned to the heading and let the nose [go] below the flight director to try and give an easier level off. At first I reduced the throttles manually; but as we were also looking for traffic ahead I let go of the throttles while looking outside and ended up speeding up to about 265 knots before realizing it. I immediately pulled the throttles back and added back pressure.I believe I underestimated how rusty I might be from barely flying this month. Going forward I'm going to rely more on following the flight director much closer; especially because of how little I'm flying.
Air carrier Captain had an airspeed deviation and cited being rusty due lack of flying as contributing.