Amateur/Home Built/Experimental
Flight Crew Instrument
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 30; Flight Crew Total 1100; Flight Crew Type 800
Situational Awareness; Distraction
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT
Air Traffic Control Issued Advisory / Alert; Flight Crew Became Reoriented
Weather; Procedure; Human Factors
I was being vectored for the ILS at ZZZ when I noticed on right downwind I could see the airport well even with the haze. I reported this to approach and requested the Visual Approach to [Runway] XX. Controller vectored me to heading 90 degrees for traffic then cleared me for the Visual [Runway] XX. I started the turn for a better angle at base and reported to Tower I was inbound on the visual [Runway] XX. They cleared me to land but I noticed after all that; I no longer could see the runway. I did have good VFR for terrain clearance however. I had the localizer dialed in so began tracking it in until I could see the runway which did quickly occur. My altitude had slipped though and set off towers alarm and they called. I did have VFR clearance for terrain and there appeared to be no real problem. Slantwise visibility was degraded no doubt and long range visibility did suffer. I should have just stuck with the ILS.
Pilot reported they lost sight of the runway due to haze and received a Low Altitude Alert from Tower.