Whichever decision making model you use, always start from a strong position
I agree and you can forget all this DODAR. FORDEC crap. The flight deck is not a kindergarten. Next we hear someone will pin pretty coloured flight safety messages around the flight deck roof to remind pilots of all the useful acronyms. But if you are flying a Boeing just remember the QRH is your friend.
Colleague in Africa took off in a 737 with the gear pins in place. Naturally gear failed to retract. Colleague (captain) called for appropriate QRH checklist. The local F/O literally panicked and called upon his particular religious deity for help, wailing all the time they were all going to die. Captain told him to stop the religious crap and get on with reading the landing gear problem checklist from the QRH.
F/O by now was out of his mind with fear whereupon the captain grabbed the QRH and smacked the wailing F/O over the head with it and said now read the bloody checklist. The shock action worked and the local F/O calmed down proving the QRH was more powerful a God than his own Deity. Remember when all seems lost the QRH is your friend. Beats DODAR and FORDEC every time
