Baron 58/58TC
Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Private
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 40; Flight Crew Total 1100; Flight Crew Type 25
Distraction; Situational Awareness
ATC Issue All Types; Airspace Violation All Types
Flight Crew Became Reoriented; Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
ATC Equipment / Nav Facility / Buildings; Human Factors
En route to LUK; I was under a broken cloud layer and 30 miles north of Dayton; VFR/1200 not talking to anyone. I took that opportunity to pull up Lunken's ATIS and got concerned about a notice on the ATIS of a TFR over the 'Great America Stadium'. I had not seen any such TFR on my pre-flight briefing; and I wasn't showing anything on Foreflight; or on my XM weather display on the G600. Nevertheless; I took the ATIS message seriously and tried to find Great America Stadium on my charts. I wasn't able to conclusively locate it; so I decided to call Radio for some guidance. I made contact with Dayton Radio and he was also not showing any NOTAMs for the Cincinnati area; but he offered to check a few other sites for me. Eventually; he read me the standard 3;000-and-3 TFR; but said 'that is usually for Division 1 college or NFL games; usually not for MLB games' and that 'coordination with ATC is always sufficient to get around or through those TFRs'. By the time all of this was sorted out; I had entered Dayton's Class C airspace at 4;500 FT. I saw Dayton Internationals runways ahead and initiated a quick climb above the top of the Class C airspace. I have onboard active TIS and there were no targets nearby; but I did clip the edge of the airspace. What could I have done to prevent a recurrence:1. Maintain better situational awareness.2. Prioritize (lower) the sorting out of an airspace concern 75 miles ahead; in favor of the one that's 20 miles ahead.3. Use VFR advisories. I normally use flight following (which would be enough to avoid this; as it's inherently 2-way comms); but in the marginal weather and with my unfamiliarity with Cincinnati and Lunken; I thought it might be easier to not deal with the Approach and Center Controllers; having more flexibility to spend time on ATIS and AWOS stations along the route. What could the overall system have done to help:1. The most obvious is to kill the pointless 'open-air gathering' TFRs. It's pure security theater.2. If unwilling/unable to do that; at least publish them as TFRs in the flight data feed that DUATS; Foreflight and XM process and transmit. That would have pinpointed the TFR; told me that it wasn't a factor; and if it was; I'd have handy information on how to coordinate or avoid.
BE58 pilot reports being distracted while attempting to locate a TFR which was not in the pre-flight briefing and wasn't showing up on Foreflight; nor on the XM weather display on his G600. The result is inadvertent entry into DAY Class C airspace.