diff --git a/StarterNG/Application/HaslerTapes.cs b/StarterNG/Application/HaslerTapes.cs
index df067c0..3d0b464 100644
--- a/StarterNG/Application/HaslerTapes.cs
+++ b/StarterNG/Application/HaslerTapes.cs
@@ -113,6 +113,17 @@ public sealed class HaslerTapes
         }
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Reads what the log of the last launch has gained since the last look. A start
+    /// notes that down before the log begins anew, and after a long run, with nothing
+    /// read of it yet, it would wait on the whole log.
+    /// </summary>
+    public void FollowLastRun()
+    {
+        if (Launches().LastOrDefault() is { } launch)
+            PlayerIn(launch);
+    }
+
     /// <summary>
     /// The launches noted so far, oldest first. Read again only when the file has
     /// changed: this runs every few seconds next to a running simulator.
diff --git a/StarterNG/MainWindow.axaml.cs b/StarterNG/MainWindow.axaml.cs
index 8d71cd0..1956dd0 100644
--- a/StarterNG/MainWindow.axaml.cs
+++ b/StarterNG/MainWindow.axaml.cs
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ public partial class MainWindow : Window
             _openedUtc = DateTime.UtcNow;
             UpdateStartButton();
             _sceneryFilesTimer.Start();
+            FollowLastRun();
         };
         Activated += (_, _) => CheckExternalSettings();
         _sceneryFilesTimer.Tick += async (_, _) => await LookAtSceneryFilesAsync();
@@ -693,11 +694,22 @@ public partial class MainWindow : Window
         _ = simulator.WaitForExitAsync().ContinueWith(_ => Dispatcher.UIThread.Post(() =>
         {
             AppServices.Current.State.SimulatorRunning = false;
+            FollowLastRun();
             RestoreFromSimulator();
             ReportIfCrashed(simulator, executable, started);
         }), TaskScheduler.Default);
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// The player's vehicles in the last run, read from its log off the UI thread
+    /// while nobody waits: the next start has to have them before the log begins anew.
+    /// </summary>
+    private static void FollowLastRun()
+    {
+        if (AppServices.Current.Settings.PhysicsLog)
+            _ = Task.Run(AppServices.Current.Tapes.FollowLastRun);
+    }
+
     /// <summary>
     /// Says why the simulator is gone when it did not end the way a session does:
     /// an error code, or a close so soon after the start that nobody played - a