Private pilot is informed after the fact that he had entered a tfr while flying VFR off the east coa...

Narrative:

I had an IFR flight plan through flightplan.com on file from ZZZ to ZZZZ. I had just arrived about 20 minutes before and had flight following to ZZZ; plus no tfr appeared on my garmin xm weather during the flight. Upon taking off from ZZZ; at about 4;000 feet; I contacted ATC and asked to open flight following to ZZZZ. He said you have an IFR flight plan on file to ZZZZ and I said; since it was clear would prefer going VFR with flight following. My IFR flight plan was initially to YYY then YYY1 which was closer to shore than going direct. I was given a transponder code and then shortly thereafter ATC switched me to [another frequency.] I contacted ATC; and then was shortly switched to another ATC frequency. That frequency shortly thereafter told me to contact ATC upon landing in ZZZZ. I asked them what for and he did not say. No one mentioned to me that there was a tfr in place and unfortunately my xm weather did not display it; first time that ever happened to me and will look into this when I get back to the states. There was another plane; that was flying with me to ZZZZ and he flew from ZZZ IFR direct. It was never mentioned to him either that he was in a tfr. So yes my mistake being in an active tfr; but this has always been mentioned to me by controllers when on flight following; so hope you can help me on this.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Private pilot is informed after the fact that he had entered a TFR while flying VFR off the east coast of Florida with flight following. The onboard Garmin with XM also did not show the TFR.

Narrative: I had an IFR flight plan through flightplan.com on file from ZZZ to ZZZZ. I had just arrived about 20 minutes before and had flight following to ZZZ; plus no TFR appeared on my Garmin XM weather during the flight. Upon taking off from ZZZ; at about 4;000 feet; I contacted ATC and asked to open flight following to ZZZZ. He said you have an IFR flight plan on file to ZZZZ and I said; since it was clear would prefer going VFR with flight following. My IFR flight plan was initially to YYY then YYY1 which was closer to shore than going direct. I was given a transponder code and then shortly thereafter ATC switched me to [another frequency.] I contacted ATC; and then was shortly switched to another ATC frequency. That frequency shortly thereafter told me to contact ATC upon landing in ZZZZ. I asked them what for and he did not say. No one mentioned to me that there was a TFR in place and unfortunately my XM weather did not display it; first time that ever happened to me and will look into this when I get back to the states. There was another plane; that was flying with me to ZZZZ and he flew from ZZZ IFR direct. It was never mentioned to him either that he was in a TFR. So yes my mistake being in an active TFR; but this has always been mentioned to me by controllers when on flight following; so hope you can help me on this.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 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	1068355
Time
Date	201302
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Small Aircraft
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Climb
Route In Use	Direct
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	GPS & Other Satellite Navigation
Person 1
Function	Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Private Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 40 Flight Crew Total 1800 Flight Crew Type 1400
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Airspace Violation All Types

Private pilot is informed after the fact that he had entered a tfr while flying VFR off the east coast of florida with flight following. The onboard garmin with xm also did not show the tfr.