Medium Transport
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Workload; Situational Awareness; Time Pressure
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical
Air Traffic Control Provided Assistance; Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; Flight Crew Returned To Departure Airport; Flight Crew Requested ATC Assistance / Clarification; Flight Crew Landed in Emergency Condition; General Flight Cancelled / Delayed
Aircraft
We departed ZZZ for the flight. We encountered during the climb segment at around 17;000 feet a Left Generator Fail CAS message. We didn't have much time to pull out the QRH that we received a Left Oil Pressure [alert] with Triple Chime. I looked down to the oil pressure and saw it going into the yellow and immediately told the First Officer that I was going to shut down Engine 1. I told The First Officer to tell Center we had an engine failure and wanted to return to ZZZ. I made a call over the Public Address to tell the passengers that we had lost an engine and we were returning to ZZZ. Slightly out of order I called the Flight Attendant over the emergency button and let her know what we were planning on doing. Going back to ZZZ; not expecting any evacuation or brace and should be a normal landing. She asked about evacuation doors; I told her worse case we would evacuate out the main cabin door. The Flight Attendant prepared the cabin for an emergency return to ZZZ. I performed a 180 degree turn toward ZZZ as the First Officer communicated information requested by ATC and began to run the QRH. What followed was a normal single engine landing on Runway XX at ZZZ with the fire trucks waiting at the end of the runway.The crew worked well together. The Flight Attendant kept the passengers calm and secured the cabin. My First Officer did great. Communicated well to ATC and ran the QRH while I aviated and navigated back to ZZZ. Couldn't have asked for a better outcome. Great crew resource management; certainly not perfect; but we all had a role to play in the successful outcome of this flight.
Air taxi Captain reported an engine shutdown due to oil leak/starvation.