A VFR aircraft departing vny was issued instructions which confused the pilot. ATC restricted their ...

Narrative:

I departed from 16L at vny and requested a straight out 'to encino reservoir' departure with a jet departing on 16R. Tower indicated that I should turn 15 degrees to the right; upon which I informed vny tower that I was trying to go east to griffith observatory for an easterly VFR path. Vny tower told me to stay 'west of departure path'; but it was confusing to me for a jet departing on the right runway I would expect them to turn to 210 degrees for the CANOGA1. The tower then told me stop my climb at 1700 feet and turn towards griffith park observatory. I had the traffic showing on tis B; so I kept as far south as possible with the rising terrain and attempted to contact TRACON for clearance into class C. By the time I reached TRACON; they restricted my climb and I was caught between rising terrain and the class [C] of burbank; so I kept as far south as possible maintaining clearance from terrain and complying with altitude restrictions. TRACON indicated that I had violated burbank airspace; but I had been restricted from climbing to a safe altitude which would have allowed me to avoid their class D airspace due to terrain.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A VFR aircraft departing VNY was issued instructions which confused the pilot. ATC restricted their climb and in order to avoid terrain they entered BUR airport's Class C airspace without approval.

Narrative: I departed from 16L at VNY and requested a straight out 'to Encino Reservoir' departure with a jet departing on 16R. Tower indicated that I should turn 15 degrees to the right; upon which I informed VNY tower that I was trying to go east to Griffith Observatory for an easterly VFR path. VNY tower told me to stay 'west of departure path'; but it was confusing to me for a jet departing on the right runway I would expect them to turn to 210 degrees for the CANOGA1. The tower then told me stop my climb at 1700 feet and turn towards Griffith Park observatory. I had the traffic showing on TIS B; so I kept as far south as possible with the rising terrain and attempted to contact TRACON for clearance into Class C. By the time I reached TRACON; they restricted my climb and I was caught between rising terrain and the Class [C] of Burbank; so I kept as far south as possible maintaining clearance from terrain and complying with altitude restrictions. TRACON indicated that I had violated Burbank airspace; but I had been restricted from climbing to a safe altitude which would have allowed me to avoid their Class D airspace due to terrain.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1327809
Time
Date	201601
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	BUR.Airport
State Reference	CA
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Small Transport
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Initial Climb
Route In Use	Direct
Flight Plan	VFR
Person 1
Function	Single Pilot Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Commercial
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 32 Flight Crew Total 2459 Flight Crew Type 1950
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Airspace Violation All Types Conflict Airborne Conflict Deviation - Procedural FAR Deviation - Procedural Clearance

A VFR aircraft departing vny was issued instructions which confused the pilot. ATC restricted their climb and in order to avoid terrain they entered bur airport's class C airspace without approval.