Dboy: just to confuse you a bit more:
sometimes when flying at max rate speed we choose best angle speed to increase our actual rate of climb over a period of time
Explanation/practical example: You are climbing at mach 0.76 and the atc ask you to expedite. You select max rate which is 266 KTS indicated speed today.
You are asked again to reach your level as soon as possible, you then select max angle (255 today?) which increases your actual angle AND your actual rate at the same time during the speed loss!
Let's go even further: you've just reached you best angle speed at 1200 feet below your level and the ATC is wishing you make it even faster, due to converging traffic (bad example).
You select then minimum speed for one engine out, maybe 242 today, (not a good procedure, but the result remains true for the subject of this thread): you find yourself increasing your actual angle AND your actual rate while the speed is decreasing.
Now you are reaching your level meanwhile you've just reached your minimum one engine speed, which is below both your max rate speed and best angle speed but have increased your actual max rate and actual best climb by doing so...
Hope I have confused you enough
