EMB ERJ 145 ER/LR
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence
Air Traffic Control Provided Assistance; Flight Crew Returned To Departure Airport; Flight Crew Requested ATC Assistance / Clarification; General Flight Cancelled / Delayed; General Maintenance Action
Aircraft
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.
Upon takeoff after V1; I had the F/O (First Officer) switch the windshield wiper control knobs to the off position. The F/O's windshield wiper went into the proper position; but the CAPT's side windshield wiper got stuck in the middle position. We continued our climb and leveled off at 10;000 ft. At that time I instructed the F/O to search for a possible checklist; contact Dispatch to make them aware of event and then decided to return back to ZZZ. Cause could have been a faulty windshield wiper motor. It would be best to return to the airport with a part malfunction of that nature.
Flight Crew reported that the Captain's windshield wiper was inoperative on climb out; causing an air turnback.