Yeah you can jump around a bit when the tank is full but what's the actual use of it all?
I can explore more and faster in my Krait Phantom.
I don't see any use for FCs and personally think it's the worst feature Fdev has ever come up with.
I know some will disagree strongly with me, that's fine, if you enjoy your FC, great, but I think they're useless and broken.
Looks like the FC explorers aren't actually exploring, OR I must have the wrong idea about what it means to "explore".
For me Exploring means I pick something interesting outside the bubble from the CODEX and I plot a course filtered for "NOT VISITED" and "MOST ECONOMICAL".
When I get there, I plot a course to civilization the same way to sell the data.
Then I pick a "NOT VISITED" system close to the first one and make the round trip again and again and again.
I eventually start to see my route get longer as I have to loop out around the "tube" I have explored and I eventually get a large kind'a football shaped cluster of visited systems with nothing left in it that I have not visited so if there was anything truly "new", I won't miss it.
This method doesn't require something with a massive jump range right now, but, IF is ever decide to head out to the edge or into one of the remote places, my DBX's can do better than 60 LY without making jump juice so I should be able to get most places.
For me right now since I have 2 accounts and ships that I fly in PG and Wing the FC's have broken the game for me since I cannot reliably get into and stay in either PG or Wing.