maybepilot, use of the word
unable when, in fact, you are able but you're just being selfish, ignorant and pig headed or just don't feel like doing something is completely unprofessional.
Regarding climb rates:
The ICAO Regional Supplementary Procedures for Europe (Doc 7030/4) do not specify vertical speed(s) for European RVSM airspace.
The EUROCONTROL ACAS Programme recommendation is that when operating within or outside of RVSM airspace, aircraft should be climbed or descended at a rate of less than 1000 feet per minute in the last 1000 feet to level off in order to avoid ACAS alerts, except that pilots shall comply with any climb/descent rates specified in an ATC clearance or instruction
suggest you reduce your rate of climb
It is up to you how you manage your climb or descent however, you can see (and you should know) that we should be limiting rates to 1000'/m in the final thousand feet to a cleared level.
If you are
required to be level in 3 minutes then
you have to account for the descent rate in the last 1000'. Be level in 3 minutes is not an instruction to maintain a set rate of climb or descent.