mavsim_public Aircraft Design & Engineering

Repository for the textbook: Small Unmanned Aircraft: Theory and Practice, by Randy Beard and Tim McLain

What mavsim_public does

Repository for the textbook: Small Unmanned Aircraft: Theory and Practice, by Randy Beard and Tim McLain It is a free, open-source project hosted at byu-magicc/mavsim_public and released under the GPL-3.0 licence.

Download and install

1. Get the files. Use Download releases above if the maintainers publish binaries, otherwise grab the source ZIP or git clone https://github.com/byu-magicc/mavsim_public.git.
2. Read the README. Build and runtime requirements differ per platform — the repo README is the authoritative guide.
3. Check the licence. GPL-3.0 terms apply to redistribution and commercial use.
4. Join the community. Issues, discussions and pull requests live in the repository — that is where bugs get fixed.

Project snapshot

• Repositorybyu-magicc/mavsim_public
• Stars1,027
• Forks265
• LanguagePython
• LicenceGPL-3.0
• Last update2026-06-13

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