Regional Jet 700 ER/LR (CRJ700)
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Situational Awareness; Distraction
Deviation - Altitude Overshoot; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance
Air Traffic Control Issued Advisory / Alert; Flight Crew Became Reoriented; Flight Crew Returned To Clearance
Human Factors
Climbing out; we were assigned 5000 per the SID. The FO was the PF and I was the PM. We had an empty CRJ-700 with no one on board as it was a reposition flight. As we neared 5;000 ft.; ATC gave us a turn to 260; which caused a distraction. The FO was hand flying the vectored departure procedure. We climbed to 5;400; 400 ft. over the assigned altitude before I vocalized 'push the nose down'. ATC queried us on our assigned altitude and I stated '5;000 ft.; we got a little high.' ATC then gave us a climb to 15;000 ft. The PF did not adequately arrest the climb nor did I vocalize the deviation quick enough as PM.New FO with relatively little experience hand flying. My failure as PM to properly monitor the climb rate and catch the deviation early enough.As the CA (Captain); I should have proactively briefed the potential threat of an empty CRJ-700 with regard to the very strong climb performance and potential for a difficult level off; especially with a new FO. Additionally; more proactive PM monitoring; especially regarding the climb rate; should have been vocalized.
I was Pilot Flying for a repositioning flight. The plane was light; and being new; I was not used to that. I was hand flying; and while trying to slow down I didn't keep my scan going enough to notice we were going through our assigned altitude until I was off by 400 ft. The Captain and I noticed about the same time and I corrected it. ATC asked what altitude we were climbing to; and we told them FL050; but that we had accidentally climbed through it and were correcting. ATC then assigned us FL150. Plane was light; I am inexperienced (109 hrs.); I let myself get behind the plane.I'll be more aware that when the plane is empty it's going to climb much faster than I'm used to. I may consider engaging the autopilot sooner so that I am not saturated. I think mostly just being aware will take care of the problem.
CRJ-700 flight crew reported overshooting an altitude clearance; citing low weight and flying pilot's low experience level.