diff --git a/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md b/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md
index 6fbf52a1e..3dd7a59d0 100644
--- a/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md
+++ b/docs/CURRENT-STATE.md
@@ -70,46 +70,46 @@ below 1,000 km. Above that height a few drags could turn the whole planet out of
 frame and leave only stars, so Shift+drag does nothing there. Cesium also turns
 the camera in place for a drag that starts on the stars below its trackball
 height (7,500 km by default); that height is lowered to 1,000 km, so such a drag
-orbits the globe above it, as it does higher up, and a tilt drag from the stars
-there tilts about the planet's edge or does nothing. Otherwise orbit, tilt and
-zoom are unchanged at every height. How much of the frame shows the planet's
-surface is measured by casting a 32×18 grid of view rays at the ellipsoid; while
-the scope mask is on (the default) only the rays inside its keyhole count, since
-the mask hides or dims the rest. Voice tilt and in-place turns of a free 3D
-camera above 1,000 km stop when about a tenth of the frame still shows the
-surface (or about as much as it showed when it started), never less than about
-1% of the visible frame, and a view that already shows less only keeps or gains
-what it has. A turn that cannot go half a degree further without crossing that
-limit is refused with a reason instead of reported as done, and a turn it
-accepts turns at least that half degree. A turn that keeps or gains surface is
-not refused, even after the window has been resized, except that near the limit,
-where the planet's edge crosses the sample grid, sampling wobble can
-occasionally refuse one (most often above about 15,000 km and on phone or
-ultrawide frames); nothing then turns away from the planet. A turn that starts
-where the last voice turn left the camera keeps that turn's limit, or a higher
-one if the planet now fills more, so repeating the request does not take any
-more; once anything else has moved or turned the camera, a turn is measured from
-what is on screen. When a camera move ends above 1,000 km with no ray on the
-surface, the camera turns straight down at the same position and heading. The
-end of a move is taken from Cesium's move-end event and from a check of its own
-that samples the pose every 250 ms after a move starts and acts once it has held
-for half a second, because at some of these poses the camera drifts by a
-rounding error every frame and Cesium never sees it stop. That check keeps
-watching until move-end arrives, recovering once after each move that comes to
-rest, and gives up five minutes after the camera last moved. Limb glow, and a
-surface sliver up to about one grid cell thick (some 50 px on a 900 px tall
-frame), can count as out of view. The zoom-out guard above keeps wheel and pinch
-zoom-outs in view; this catches the other ways a move can end looking away, such
-as a saved or shared view that did. Views with more surface than that, such as
-the oblique orbital Director shots, are left as they are, and so are tracked or
-locked cameras, a camera flight in progress, a Director scene while it plays
-(holds included) and the 2D and Columbus modes; a check a flight or scene defers
-runs once it ends. A Director shot loaded or replayed outside a run is not a
-playing scene. A view that loses its surface without a camera move (a resize, or
-turning the scope on) is left as it is until the next move. A voice turn
-requested while the camera is tracked is judged by the pose voice's release of
-the follow camera will leave, before that release, so a refused turn keeps the
-tracking.
+orbits the globe above it, as it does higher up, and a tilt (drag or touch)
+while the screen centre is on the stars there tilts about the planet's edge or
+does nothing, wherever it starts. Rotation drags that start on the planet, and
+zoom, are unchanged. How much of the frame shows the planet's surface is
+measured by casting a 32×18 grid of view rays at the ellipsoid; while the scope
+mask is on (the default) only the rays inside its keyhole count, since the mask
+hides or dims the rest. Voice tilt and in-place turns of a free 3D camera above
+1,000 km stop when about a tenth of the frame still shows the surface (or about
+as much as it showed when it started), never less than about 1% of the visible
+frame, and a view that already shows less only keeps or gains what it has. A
+turn that cannot go half a degree further without crossing that limit is refused
+with a reason instead of reported as done, and a turn it accepts turns at least
+that half degree. A turn that keeps or gains surface is not refused, even after
+the window has been resized, except that near the limit, where the planet's edge
+crosses the sample grid, sampling wobble can occasionally refuse one (most often
+above about 15,000 km and on phone or ultrawide frames); nothing then turns away
+from the planet. A turn that starts where the last voice turn left the camera
+keeps that turn's limit, or a higher one if the planet now fills more, so
+repeating the request does not take any more; once anything else has moved or
+turned the camera, a turn is measured from what is on screen. When a camera move
+ends above 1,000 km with no ray on the surface, the camera turns straight down
+at the same position and heading. The end of a move is taken from Cesium's
+move-end event and from a check of its own that samples the pose every 250 ms
+after a move starts and acts once it has held for half a second, because at some
+of these poses the camera drifts by a rounding error every frame and Cesium
+never sees it stop. That check keeps watching until move-end arrives, recovering
+once after each move that comes to rest, and gives up five minutes after the
+camera last moved. Limb glow, and a surface sliver up to about one grid cell
+thick (some 50 px on a 900 px tall frame), can count as out of view. The
+zoom-out guard above keeps wheel and pinch zoom-outs in view; this catches the
+other ways a move can end looking away, such as a saved or shared view that did.
+Views with more surface than that, such as the oblique orbital Director shots,
+are left as they are, and so are tracked or locked cameras, a camera flight in
+progress, a Director scene while it plays (holds included) and the 2D and
+Columbus modes; a check a flight or scene defers runs once it ends. A Director
+shot loaded or replayed outside a run is not a playing scene. A view that loses
+its surface without a camera move (a resize, or turning the scope on) is left as
+it is until the next move. A voice turn requested while the camera is tracked is
+judged by the pose voice's release of the follow camera will leave, before that
+release, so a refused turn keeps the tracking.
 
 Analyst region queries resolve unique Natural Earth names offline without
 geocoding, so Gold Coast and Ivory Coast name the West African natural regions.
diff --git a/src/app/application.test.mjs b/src/app/application.test.mjs
index 3e4a359e7..da01ff61c 100644
--- a/src/app/application.test.mjs
+++ b/src/app/application.test.mjs
@@ -765,6 +765,8 @@ test('a check a scene or flight defers runs once it ends', () => {
     // A hold on a stars-only shot: quiet, with or without Cesium's moveEnd.
     for (let i = 0; i < 4; i += 1) timers.tick();
     if (viaMoveEnd) camera.moveEnd.raiseEvent();
+    // Longer than the settle check's five-minute bound.
+    for (let i = 0; i < 1500; i += 1) timers.tick();
     assert.equal(globeOutOfFrame(camera), true, 'left alone while it plays');
     assert.equal(timers.pending(), 1, 'still watching');
     playing = false;
diff --git a/src/app/viewer.js b/src/app/viewer.js
index 1bc94ddd8..ef36feb8a 100644
--- a/src/app/viewer.js
+++ b/src/app/viewer.js
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ const SETTLE_GIVE_UP_MS = 5 * 60_000;
  * Heading and position are kept. Tracked cameras, locked ones (non-identity
  * transform), a camera flight in progress, the 2D and Columbus modes, and any
  * time `paused` returns true (an authored scene playing) are left alone; a
- * check they defer runs again once they end, within the settle check's bound.
+ * check they defer runs once they end, however long they last.
  * `keyholeRadius`
  * returns the radius of the visible circle when a scope mask hides the rest of
  * the frame (see `globeFrameShare`), or 0; it is read at every check.
@@ -261,8 +261,11 @@ export function installGlobeInViewRecovery(
     }
     // Two quiet samples in a row after a move: at rest for half a second, as
     // for moveEnd.
-    if (restingSamples >= 2 && movedSinceCheck && recover())
-      movedSinceCheck = false;
+    if (restingSamples >= 2 && movedSinceCheck) {
+      if (recover()) movedSinceCheck = false;
+      // A flight or a playing scene bounds its own deferral.
+      else settleElapsed = 0;
+    }
     if (settleElapsed >= SETTLE_GIVE_UP_MS) return;
     Cesium.Cartesian3.clone(camera.positionWC, lastPosition);
     Cesium.Cartesian3.clone(camera.directionWC, lastDirection);