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Old 10-31-2010, 01:38 PM
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Default Stadium TFRs

Has anyone have a good way to locate active stadium TFRs when doing their cross-country planning?

They are not included in the FAA TFR website, or in the published Notices to Airmen (except in the few cases where special procedures have been established), or in third-partly electronic listings (such as the Garmin 396/496/696 or Weathermeister). Also, the stadiums for the most part seem not to be printed on charts.

AOPA does a list of locations (in lat-lon coordinates) and provide links to where to find the schedules (takes you to the NFL etc websites). This info is helpful, but a very laborious solution to the problem.
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Old 10-31-2010, 03:12 PM
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This is a major problem with the entire TFR thing. Should an event last longer than the published TFR, the TFR remains in place until the event is over. Also, you can?t get the TFR info during a standard briefing. There was a good article on this problem in AOPA some years back and the answer was you are SOL when it comes to these TFR?s. BTW, they also count for high school football games and almost anything that is an outdoor paid event, as I understand it.

Let us know how your search turns out.
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Old 10-31-2010, 03:28 PM
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Here's the list of venues and links to schedules:

http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/stadiums.html
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Old 10-31-2010, 03:47 PM
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If you use weathermeister.com, they are shown on your flight breif.
We made it back home Allen, no cylinder issues. Had a push the whole way.
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Old 10-31-2010, 04:07 PM
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It's really fun in Phoenix with baseball cactus league (MLB spring training) going on. They are everywhere and at lots of different times.
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Old 10-31-2010, 08:03 PM
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If you use weathermeister.com, they are shown on your flight breif.
We made it back home Allen, no cylinder issues. Had a push the whole way.
Gary - glad you made it home with no more problems.

I actually haven't seen the stadium TFRs shown on the Weathermeister briefing. In Madison for example we frequently have a TFR in effect for the UW football games, but it doesn't show up on Weathermeister or on my 396. I do see other TFRs (VIP, etc).
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Old 10-31-2010, 08:58 PM
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I may be showing my ignorance here, but here goes...

Aren't stadium TFRs usually limited to 2500 agl? Additionally, I think you can fly through a stadium TFR zone if you're on a flight plan or under direct control of a controlling authority (such as local control tower or other ATC).

So, unless you're just buzzing the local stadium, most of the time you would be flying too high (if cross country) or under control of ATC (if flying in an airport environment with control tower near stadium).

I may be too 'local' with my thought process here. I'm thinking about SeaHawk football Stadium and Mariner's baseball stadium and Univ of Wash stadium. Although they all get the 'Stadium TFR', I wouldn't usually consider flying low over any of the stadiums at any time except when flying into Boeing Field KBFI. But then I would be under the control of ATC and following their instructions/vectors.
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Aren't stadium TFRs usually limited to 2500 agl? Additionally, I think you can fly through a stadium TFR zone if you're on a flight plan or under direct control of a controlling authority (such as local control tower or other ATC).

So, unless you're just buzzing the local stadium, most of the time you would be flying too high (if cross country) or under control of ATC (if flying in an airport environment with control tower near stadium)...
Look up 34G and see how close it is to the Michigan International Raceway.

It would be very easy for someone to plane a VFR flight to that airport (or to JQF) when a race is going on. Landing at that airport will bust a TFR during a race. The bad part is when you look at the sectional, you can see the oval south of the airport but that could be someone's horse track. Only if you know the area would you have a clue it is a major race track.
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Only major sporting events are covered by the stadium TFRs. From the FAA website:

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FDC NOTAM 9/5151, issued under 14 CFR 99.7 on "Special Security Instructions," restricts flight over stadiums during major league baseball, National Football League, NCAA, and motor speedway events. The so-called ?stadium TFR? prohibits aircraft and parachute operations at or below 3,000 AGL within a 3 nm radius of any stadium with a seating capacity of 30,000 or more people when there is a major league baseball game, NFL game, NCAA division one football game, or major motor speedway event occurring. This TFR applies to the entire US domestic national airspace system, and takes effect from one hour before the scheduled event time until one hour after the event concludes.
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Old 10-31-2010, 10:29 PM
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The runwayfinder website shows the TFR for the world series game.
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