Narrative:

Aircraft X went around on runway 8. I issued the missed approach instructions which were 'turn right heading 170; climb and maintain 5000 ft.' while I was doing that the controller in charge coordinated the go around with socal valley sector. They instructed us to give aircraft X right turn heading 180; climb and maintain 4000 ft for traffic. I issued that instruction to the pilot and changed his frequency to the valley sector. The problem is that off the departure end or runway 8 we have an MVA of 4300 ft which is why we give pilots 5000 ft. The aircraft is out of the MVA once he executes his 170 turn however for a short time he is still in the 4300 ft MVA while climbing. Since valley instructed that the altitude was for traffic and aircraft X would not reach 5000 ft before exiting the MVA anyways I gave the 4000 ft and the aircraft was out of the MVA just east of burbank airport.if possible; with the dva (diverse vectoring area) box that we have; if an aircraft is executing his southbound turn over the airport and the controller observes the turn; that we can issue 4000 ft for an altitude. No matter if we give him 4000 ft or 5000 ft the aircraft will still be under the MVA the same amount of time and will never level in the MVA due to the south bound turn. Aircraft climbing to 5000 ft is very dangerous due to the proximity of smo airport and other eastbound transitions at 5000 ft.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: BUR Tower Controller reported SCT relayed a missed approach altitude below an MVA that the aircraft may have entered while turning away from it.

Narrative: Aircraft X went around on Runway 8. I issued the missed approach instructions which were 'turn right heading 170; climb and maintain 5000 ft.' While I was doing that the CIC coordinated the go around with SOCAL valley sector. They instructed us to give Aircraft X right turn heading 180; climb and maintain 4000 ft for traffic. I issued that instruction to the pilot and changed his frequency to the valley sector. The problem is that off the departure end or Runway 8 we have an MVA of 4300 ft which is why we give pilots 5000 ft. The aircraft is out of the MVA once he executes his 170 turn however for a short time he is still in the 4300 ft MVA while climbing. Since valley instructed that the altitude was for traffic and Aircraft X would not reach 5000 ft before exiting the MVA anyways I gave the 4000 ft and the aircraft was out of the MVA just east of Burbank airport.If possible; with the DVA (Diverse Vectoring Area) box that we have; if an aircraft is executing his southbound turn over the airport and the controller observes the turn; that we can issue 4000 ft for an altitude. No matter if we give him 4000 ft or 5000 ft the aircraft will still be under the MVA the same amount of time and will never level in the MVA due to the south bound turn. Aircraft climbing to 5000 ft is very dangerous due to the proximity of SMO airport and other eastbound transitions at 5000 ft.

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.