Narrative:

I flew through stadium tfr for a baseball game. I did not know I did anything wrong until tower told me to phone approach. I told approach that I did not see any tfr's online which I checked prior to flight. Approach said there is a permanent tfr for ballgames. When I got home I looked up and printed out twenty eight pages from a pilot website. It talked about monitoring 121.5 and not circling or loitering over dams; power plants; etc. It then goes into individual states. The only reference to a three mile and 3000 ft restriction was under florida and california for disneyland and disneyworld. This did not add up. I called the FSS. They directed me to FAA.gov; which did not work on three tries. Once it redirected to a search engine; once it listed fifteen pages of options and once it wanted inputs I did not know. I asked the FSS to read the fdc and he said it was 9/5151. I went back to the pages I have read in the past which I previously monitored and it is titled. 9/5151; but it's twenty eight pages and does not mention the sports tfr. The light bulb then went on and I clicked on 9/5151 and a two page report on the three mile; 3000 ft sports tfr came up. I was not negligent of the regulation; I had read it many times but the way it is presented in AOPA I believed that it was ok to fly by a sports event in cruise as long as you did not loiter or circle. AOPA gives no guidance that you need to click on 9/5151 to get the sports tfr and the FAA site was totally unusable. I was not trying to do anything wrong. I was talking to tower right before flying by the game and then went right to tower. No ATIS nor did tower gave any indication of the tfr. I was following the regulation as I had read it. I just did not know that I needed to click on what I thought was the title of the twenty eight pages online to learn of the sports tfr.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A BE55 Pilot flew into a stadium TFR because he misunderstood that the TFR Regulation included prohibiting cruise flight transiting through a TFR as well as circling and loitering flight.

Narrative: I flew through stadium TFR for a baseball game. I did not know I did anything wrong until Tower told me to phone Approach. I told Approach that I did not see any TFR's online which I checked prior to flight. Approach said there is a permanent TFR for ballgames. When I got home I looked up and printed out twenty eight pages from a pilot website. It talked about monitoring 121.5 and not circling or loitering over dams; power plants; etc. It then goes into individual states. The only reference to a three mile and 3000 FT restriction was under Florida and California for Disneyland and Disneyworld. This did not add up. I called the FSS. They directed me to FAA.gov; which did not work on three tries. Once it redirected to a search engine; once it listed fifteen pages of options and once it wanted inputs I did not know. I asked the FSS to read the FDC and he said it was 9/5151. I went back to the pages I have read in the past which I previously monitored and it is titled. 9/5151; but it's twenty eight pages and does not mention the sports TFR. The light bulb then went on and I clicked on 9/5151 and a two page report on the three mile; 3000 FT sports TFR came up. I was not negligent of the regulation; I had read it many times but the way it is presented in AOPA I believed that it was OK to fly by a sports event in cruise as long as you did not loiter or circle. AOPA gives no guidance that you need to click on 9/5151 to get the sports TFR and the FAA site was totally unusable. I was not trying to do anything wrong. I was talking to Tower right before flying by the game and then went right to Tower. No ATIS nor did Tower gave any indication of the TFR. I was following the regulation as I had read it. I just did not know that I needed to click on what I thought was the title of the twenty eight pages online to learn of the sports TFR.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.