The solo pilot was surprised to be advised in-flight that an sporting event tfr was in place around ...

Attributes
ACN	1349668
Time
Date	201604
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	SFO.Tower
State Reference	CA
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Skyhawk 172/Cutlass 172
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Cruise
Route In Use	Direct
Flight Plan	None
Component
Aircraft Component	Other Documentation
Person 1
Function	Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 20 Flight Crew Total 1300 Flight Crew Type 700
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

Narrative:

While flying northbound along 101; after passing ksfo; ksfo tower (I'm pretty sure this happened before being handed off the norcal) instructed me to turn left and remain south of sutro tower to avoid a tfr [sporting event]. Before starting the flight I called 1-800-wxbrief for a standard briefing and specifically asked about tfrs for this route of flight at the time it was flown. The briefer explicitly told me there were going to be no [sporting] tfrs. So; then I was surprised when the controller told me to avoid a tfr that flight service didn't know about. There was only about two hours difference between the time of the briefing and the time of my flight so I find it hard to believe that this was a surprise pop-up tfr. After all; the schedule is known well in advance to the rest of the united states; why doesn't flight service know about it? It seems I would get more authoritative tfr information by checking the giants schedule online rather than calling flight service.clearly there is something broken in the dissemination of tfrs to flight service. This is a problem that should be easily fixed. There is no excuse for this to happen.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: The solo pilot was surprised to be advised in-flight that an sporting event TFR was in place around the ballpark when his weather briefer had been specifically stated that no TFR was planned during the flight briefing two hours prior.

Narrative: While flying northbound along 101; after passing KSFO; KSFO tower (I'm pretty sure this happened before being handed off the NORCAL) instructed me to turn left and remain south of Sutro tower to avoid a TFR [sporting event]. Before starting the flight I called 1-800-WXBRIEF for a standard briefing and specifically asked about TFRs for this route of flight at the time it was flown. The briefer explicitly told me there were going to be no [sporting] TFRs. So; then I was surprised when the controller told me to avoid a TFR that Flight Service didn't know about. There was only about two hours difference between the time of the briefing and the time of my flight so I find it hard to believe that this was a surprise pop-up TFR. After all; the schedule is known well in advance to the rest of the United States; why doesn't Flight Service know about it? It seems I would get more authoritative TFR information by checking the Giants schedule online rather than calling Flight Service.Clearly there is something broken in the dissemination of TFRs to Flight Service. This is a problem that should be easily fixed. There is no excuse for this to happen.

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.

The solo pilot was surprised to be advised in-flight that an sporting event tfr was in place around the ballpark when his weather briefer had been specifically stated that no tfr was planned during the flight briefing two hours prior.