SPI ACCUSED OF PENETRATING LAX TCA ON CLIMB TO CRUISE FROM FUL TOWARD ELM DURING A SOLO CROSS-COUNTRY FLT.

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THIS RPT IS BEING FILED BECAUSE OF AN INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED ON A SOLO TRNING FLT FROM FULLERTON; CA TO SANTA MARIA; CO ON 1/88. THE PLANNED RTE OF THE FLT WAS FULLERTON; DIRECT TO EL MONTE; DIRECT TO FILLMORE VOR; DIRECT SAN MARCOS VOR; DIRECT SANTA MARIA. TYPE OF ACFT FOR THE FLT WAS AN SMA. I DEPARTED FROM FULLERTON; CLBED TO 3500' AT A MAGNETIC HDG 335 DEGS WHILE CLBING TO 3500'. I PROCEEDED TO CONTACT HAWTHORNE FSS TO OPEN MY FLT PLAN. ON INITIAL CONTACT I WAS TOLD THAT I WAS THIRD IN LINE. THERE WAS A LOT OF VIS TFC IN THE VICINITY AT THE TIME; WHICH WAS THE APPROX LOCATION OF THE CITY OF LA HABRA. AT THIS TIME THERE WAS A PLT ON THE HAWTHORNE FSS FREQ THAT COULD NOT SPEAK VERY GOOD ENGLISH AND DID NOT SEEM TO KNOW HOW TO FILE OR OPEN HIS FLT PLAN; THEREFORE TAKING UP A LOT OF TIME. BY THE TIME I OPENED MY FLT PLAN I WAS OVER EL MONTE. KNOWING THAT MY FLT PLAN WOULD TAKE ME THROUGH THE BUR ARSA; I PROCEEDED TO CONTACT BUR APCH. THE FREQ WAS VERY BUSY. IT TOOK 3 TRIES TO MAKE CONTACT. DURING THIS TIME I CONTINUED MY PRESENT HDG AND CLBING TO 4500'. REACHING 4500' I TURNED A W HDG OF 280 DEGS TO FILLMORE VOR. FINALLY; MAKING CONTACT WITH BUR APCH NEAR THE ROSE BOWL; I WAS GIVEN A SQUAWK OF 0303 AND A HDG OF DUE N. I COMPLIED AND THEN WAS TOLD TO CONTINUE VFR NAV TO MY DEST AND WHEN ARRIVING AT SANTA MARIA TO CALL PHONE #. AFTER LNDG AT SANTA MARIA I CALLED THE # GIVEN TO ME BY BUR APCH. I WAS INFORMED BY LA THAT I HAD PENETRATED THE LAX TCA AND THAT 2 ACR'S HAD TO BE DIVERTED. AFTER EXTENSIVE REVIEW OF MY FLT PLAN; I HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT LA WAS TRACKING A DIFFERENT ACFT OTHER THAN MINE. SINCE I OBSERVED MANY ACFT IN THE VICINITY AND WHILE MONITORING THE HAWTHORNE FSS FREQ; HEARING THE DIFFICULTY OF THE PLT WITH THE ENGLISH PROB TRYING TO UNDERSTAND HOW TO FILE AND OPEN HIS FLT PLAN; I THINK MY CONCLUSION IS VALID.