Boss Meet the new Better than the old boss WIND STREAKS ON THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER SHOW a steady southeast wind as Wipaire's newest Boss 182 descends toward the textured water surface. "This power setting is just fine so there's no need to change anything," says Brian Addis, a Wipaire test pilot, as he coaches me through my first water landing in the St. Paul, Minnesota, company's newest creation-a beefed-up, amphibious Cessna 182 with a growling Lycoming IO-580 engine and three-blade Hartzell propeller. "Keep what you've got [16 inches of manifold pressure] all the way to touchdown." B Y D AV E H I R S C H M A N P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y D AV I D T U L I S 74 | AOPA PILOT December 2015