diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 92c5ddb..94bfa48 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -309,8 +309,16 @@ looks up the relevant `confirm_points` entry, truncates the forecast right
 back to that point, and splices in a freshly anchored simulation of the
 remaining steps - anchored at the real elapsed time and real current
 temperature, so an actual delay shows up honestly as a gap in the timeline
-rather than as the assumed zero. The corrected forecast is sent in full
-each time, so the GUI's `SudForecastPlot.show_forecast()` simply redraws
+rather than as the assumed zero. That gap is filled at the real
+controller's setpoint at the moment of confirmation (`recv()` captures
+`tc.get_theta_soll_set()` *before* calling `Sud.confirm()`, since confirming
+synchronously pushes the next step's own target onto it) rather than
+whatever value the forecast happened to log the instant `WAIT_USER`
+tripped - the controller stays enabled and actively holding throughout
+`WAIT_USER`, so the setpoint is what it was actually converging toward
+during the wait, not a possibly-still-mid-ramp snapshot. The corrected
+forecast is sent in full each time, so the GUI's `SudForecastPlot.
+show_forecast()` simply redraws
 the dashed line outright rather than patching it up itself.
 
 Comparing the two lines: real-world divergence from the forecast - more
diff --git a/tasks/sud.py b/tasks/sud.py
index 6c3deb5..5a7d010 100644
--- a/tasks/sud.py
+++ b/tasks/sud.py
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ class SudTask(ATask):
 			'Finished': self.forecast_finished,
 		}})
 
-	async def _continue_forecast_after_confirm(self, confirmed_index):
+	async def _continue_forecast_after_confirm(self, confirmed_index, confirmed_target):
 		"""Corrects the optimistic, zero-delay guess send_forecast() (or a
 		previous call to this method) made at confirmed_index's
 		user-confirmation step, now that the confirmation has actually
@@ -177,6 +177,12 @@ class SudTask(ATask):
 		the real current temperature (more trustworthy than whatever the
 		now-superseded guess predicted it would be by now).
 
+		confirmed_target is the real controller's theta_soll_set at the
+		moment of confirmation (captured by recv() *before* calling
+		Sud.confirm(), since that synchronously pushes the next step's
+		own target onto it) - used to fill the real-world wait itself
+		(see below).
+
 		No-op if confirmed_index was never part of a computed forecast in
 		the first place (e.g. the estimator isn't configured)."""
 		if self.forecast_estimator is None:
@@ -210,12 +216,15 @@ class SudTask(ATask):
 		loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
 		t, theta, final_state, confirm_points = await loop.run_in_executor(None, self.forecast_estimator.estimate, doc, start_theta)
 		# Bridge the gap between the confirmation point and the real
-		# elapsed time it actually happened at, holding flat at its last
-		# temperature - then append the new segment, offset to start
-		# exactly there.
+		# elapsed time it actually happened at - the real controller
+		# stays enabled and actively holding through WAIT_USER, so
+		# confirmed_target (its setpoint at the time) is what it was
+		# actually converging toward during the wait, not whatever
+		# (possibly still mid-ramp) value the forecast happened to log
+		# the instant WAIT_USER tripped.
 		if self.forecast_t and self.forecast_t[-1] < real_elapsed:
 			self.forecast_t.append(real_elapsed)
-			self.forecast_theta.append(self.forecast_theta[-1])
+			self.forecast_theta.append(confirmed_target)
 		self.forecast_t.extend(real_elapsed + seconds for seconds in t)
 		self.forecast_theta.extend(theta)
 		# confirm_points' indices/times are relative to this sub-schedule
@@ -232,8 +241,9 @@ class SudTask(ATask):
 				self.sud.start()
 			elif 'Confirm' in pair[0]:
 				confirmed_index = self.sud.index
+				confirmed_target = self.tc.get_theta_soll_set()
 				self.sud.confirm()
-				asyncio.create_task(self._continue_forecast_after_confirm(confirmed_index))
+				asyncio.create_task(self._continue_forecast_after_confirm(confirmed_index, confirmed_target))
 			elif 'Pause' in pair[0]:
 				self.sud.pause()
 			elif 'Stop' in pair[0]: