Still looking for a niche for it. Currently, it's already as fast as hovering and it doesn't drain your energy.
You can grab AGILE legs to turn faster or release movement input to force a brake and turn faster for a short while. Or use both and turn on a dime. You can use this to change strafe direction surprisingly quickly. Otherwise, you can turn slower so that you maintain a high speed instead of bleeding it out for a turn.
Or you can switch on hover to move dynamically and also stabilize your weapon accuracy at the cost of some energy drain.