Flight Crew Private; Flight Crew Instrument
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 50; Flight Crew Total 3500; Flight Crew Type 200
Situational Awareness; Distraction; Human-Machine Interface
Conflict Ground Conflict; Less Severe; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT
Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Human Factors
I was flying in IMC conditions for over an hour in the plane and had about 4 hrs more given the stronger than expected headwinds. I decided to land at ZZZ to refuel as it was reporting marginal VFR at the time. All around and further down my flight path things were IFR. When I informed ATC of my decision to land at ZZZ; they reported IFR conditions and I set up for the ILS.I have flown this plane in IFR conditions before but have not flown the ILS in it. I have about 17 years experience with flying IFR in other planes and am comfortable and current with flying ILS approaches; but not in this plane. During the approach; the Tower Controller got a low altitude alert which I was able to correct. The reason was my unfamiliarity with the ILS characteristics of this plane.
LA-4 A/B Buccaneer single pilot executing an instrument approach reported that Tower received a low altitude alert warning.