Planes follow fixed paths

In case you didn't know, most commercial airliners fly a point to point path, not just a straight line from city to city. They flight towards beacons, and there for appear to be following each other. They have guidelines like east will fly at 35000, west will fly at 32000, so they pass over each other instead of collide.

They also can land about 2 minutes apart, to clear the runway.

So I saw these 5 jets lined up, so I clicked to first one to show his path, and you get to se how everyone stay on his path. They make basically the same turn over Tomball to approach IAH from the west. I was really hoping to get what looked like a landing at the airport, but my coordinates are off a bit, or they shut down the location broadcast information during landing, because they stop west of the airport.

I though it was cool to watch, I have sped it up 4 time for you, so it doesn't last almost 8 minutes when you watch it!

on youtube @ http://youtu.be/_haa8hhrUP8