She has no desire to help ease him into flying!! ... She doesn't want to waste anymore of her time or thought on this matter.
Makes her seem spiteful and resentful.
From the rest of your post one can infer that this can't have been a unique, or even first occurence of the captain having a conflict with the crew. If he really is that bad and unpopular there must be more tales about him, can you dig some up, verifiable? If it was unique, for whatever reason, triplicate my first paragraph.