Okay, I actualy laid hands on an RV today for the first time. The new owner wants an IFR cert on it before he picks it up. I do IFR certs on our experimental jets (L-39s) all the time and I know that even for an experimental aircraft there are certain requirements for back up flight instruments like a VSI, etc. Even the jets that have glass cockpits have a few backup analog gauges in them. This RV has Advanced Engineering EFIS displays in it and nothing else. There are three displays in it; a PFD on the far left, an EIS next to that and the third on for the co-pilot is kind of a repeater for the first two. It shows some engine info and some flight info. But, only the PFD has pitot/static to it so it is actualy the only air data instrument in the aircraft. There are no back up gauges at all. For an experimental RV to get IFR certified, isn't it required to have some kind of back up air data gauges?