Do you mean that you’re playing Full Throttle? Anytime you want to use a card as an action then just show it in thread, like:
Play Politics 5 FT, move to 6, fire on raiders.
That way everyone knows what you’ve played, know you have one fewer Pilot card, etc. There’s no rule to move to any other space area just by discarding a non-Full Throttle card though.
Ah I thought I had the option of moving the assault raptor/vipers by discarding a card. I see that’s only moving to a different ship, not moving a ship. Ok cancel the discard, and move 2 space and shoot the raider.
Launching a Viper into 3, using the CAG ability to take another turn action, then moving to 6 then shooting once is about as good as you can do right now. Which is just fine.